{"id":5059,"date":"2023-08-14T06:49:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T13:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/?p=5059"},"modified":"2023-10-10T13:25:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T20:25:29","slug":"microsoft-moves-its-main-employee-portal-to-latest-version-of-sharepoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/microsoft-moves-its-main-employee-portal-to-latest-version-of-sharepoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft moves its main employee portal to latest version of SharePoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7436 size-medium\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2021\/10\/ms-digital-stories-300x122.png\" alt=\"Microsoft Digital stories\" width=\"300\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2021\/10\/ms-digital-stories-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2021\/10\/ms-digital-stories.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: This blog post has been updated to reflect how improvements in SharePoint in Microsoft 365 are enabling Microsoft to share news about COVID-19 and remote working with its employees in ways that were previously not possible.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Moving MSW, Microsoft\u2019s internal news and information portal, to the latest version of SharePoint in Microsoft 365 is aiding the company as it provides COVID-19 guidance to its employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pretty dramatically rearranged our home page in a matter of hours to better be able to represent to employees our response to COVID-19,\u201d Jaffe says. \u201cThis would have been impossible in the old SharePoint environment. It\u2019s pretty amazing to have a tool flexible enough to allow us to make this kind of change this quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5238\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/03\/8800-MSW-COVID-19-Home-full.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5238 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/03\/8800-MSW-COVID-19-Home-small-5e7cda34efc3e.png\" alt=\"MSW home page with COVID-19 headlines.\" width=\"300\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/03\/8800-MSW-COVID-19-Home-small-5e7cda34efc3e.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/03\/8800-MSW-COVID-19-Home-small-5e7cda34efc3e-273x300.png 273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Click image to enlarge.) Microsoft\u2019s Employee Communications Team was able to rework the MSW homepage in just a few hours using features in the latest version of SharePoint in Microsoft 365. The team rearranged the site to improve how it presents COVID-19 information to company employees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Microsoft finished moving MSW to SharePoint in Microsoft 365 in January, opening a number of new doors to the people who manage a website that is Microsoft\u2019s front door for its employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMSW is an out-of-the-box SharePoint home site for the entire organization,\u201d Jaffe says. \u201cOur vision is that it\u2019s tailored to all of our employees based on where they work and who they work with, and is accessible on any device, anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The changeover of the Microsoft home page to the most current version of SharePoint is a pivotal milestone on the company\u2019s journey to migrate nearly 400,000 sites and portals to the web-based collaborative platform, moving from the classic publishing version of SharePoint to the latest \u201cintelligent intranet\u201d functionality.<\/p>\n<p>That new functionality is enabling MSW to use SharePoint home-site technology to give employees a dynamic, personalized, and mobile experience\u2014one that can change easily when the need arises.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, March 24th, Jaffe\u2019s team decided that MSW\u2019s home page needed to be reorganized to better show the content that Microsoft has available to employees on COVID-19 and on working remotely. In just hours, his team had redesigned the entire home page, providing employees with key COVID-19 resources, internal updates, and top news.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The move from then to now<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has moved 86 percent of its SharePoint team sites (332,446 sites and counting) and 76 percent of its SharePoint publishing portals (about 15,000 so far), but it has been slower to migrate its handful of larger-scale internal portals like MSW (short for Microsoft Web).<\/p>\n<p>The company has reached a tipping point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re well on our way to finishing a migration that will allow us to significantly improve the end-to-end experience we offer our employees,\u201d says Sam Crewdson, a senior program manager in Microsoft Digital Employee Experience.<\/p>\n<p>This means that MSW is now accessible and mobile responsive by default. It also means that the number of customizations needed to manage the home page has been reduced from 13 to only 3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that 86 percent of our sites are on the most current version of SharePoint in Microsoft 365 reflects a leap forward,\u201d Crewdson says.<\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft Employee Communications Team delayed moving the MSW home page to the new experience so that it could take advantage of search improvements, audience selectivity, and recently added SharePoint home-site capabilities. The vast majority of MSW\u2019s pages\u2014more than 99 percent\u2014were moved to the most updated version of SharePoint one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that MSW has now made the move clears the path for legal, human resources, and other major portals to follow,\u201d says Crewdson, whose team partnered with the Employee Communications Team to move the portal to the updated design. \u201cSome of our big portals have already migrated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/itshowcase\/redefining-the-intranet-site-experience-with-sharepoint-in-office-365\">Learn how Microsoft Digital Employee Experience supports the company\u2019s use of SharePoint<\/a>.]<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"Enabling remote work at Microsoft: Flexible and intelligent intranet experience\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8GgmKP84cOE\" aria-labelledby=\"Enabling remote work at Microsoft: Flexible and intelligent intranet experience\"><\/iframe><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8GgmKP84cOE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8GgmKP84cOE<\/a>, select the &#8220;More actions&#8221; button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select &#8220;Show transcript.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: -5px;\"><em>Having 100% of Microsoft\u2019s intranet portals moved to SharePoint in Microsoft 365 has contributed to our seamless transition to a work-from-home environment.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><strong>Making MSW feel more like home<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5067\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5067\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/01\/8800-BayArea-NewEmployee.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5067 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/01\/8800-BayArea-NewEmployee-300x245.png\" alt=\"A screenshot shows content that Bay Area newly hired employees saw on their personalized version of the MSW homepage recently. The stories shown include one that welcomes new employees to Microsoft, a story about a Bay Area-employee who worked on a Microsoft quantum computing project, a story on Microsoft Silicon Valley\u2019s sustainably built campus, and a story shown globally on all versions of MSW on Microsoft\u2019s new holiday ad.\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/01\/8800-BayArea-NewEmployee-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/01\/8800-BayArea-NewEmployee-768x627.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/01\/8800-BayArea-NewEmployee.png 922w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moving to the most current version of MSW allows the company to present relevant content by location, business group, or role. Here\u2019s what the MSW home page recently looked like for new employees working in the Microsoft Bay Area office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The new site, which 200,000 Microsoft employees, vendors, and partners call home, offers a more personalized experience while giving Jaffe and the Employee Communications Team a new set of tools to better communicate with employees and to assert their preferred branding look and feel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about helping employees find information that\u2019s relevant to them, to help them complete the tasks they want to complete,\u201d Jaffe says. \u201cHopefully, that allows them to become more engaged and to spend less time searching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the past, MSW tended to publish content that was Redmond-centric, meaning it was focused on the stories coming out of company headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you didn\u2019t fit the profile of working in Redmond, you didn\u2019t really feel like you were part of the company that was showing up on the pages of MSW,\u201d Jaffe says.<\/p>\n<p>That prompted company divisions and regional offices across the globe to create their own smaller portals that they used to share their local news and information with their people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will use the updated MSW to unravel that trend,\u201d Jaffe says. \u201cWe want teams from India, Australia, Silicon Valley, and everywhere else to localize the content that shows up on MSW for the people who work in their regions. We think of it as taking a One Microsoft approach to the intranet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Getting Microsoft\u2019s large portals onto the latest feature set of SharePoint is a win for the product group, says DC Padur, a principal product manager in SharePoint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving Microsoft launch this is a big deal, because it\u2019s one of the biggest users of SharePoint in the world,\u201d says Padur, who points out that his team learns a lot from how the company uses the product. \u201cCustomers ask, \u2018How are you using it?\u2019 They say, \u2018Understanding how you use it will help me to understand how it would work for me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Padur says being a SharePoint showcase works only if MSW is using the most current version of the product, which is now the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re constantly adapting SharePoint,\u201d he says. \u201cNow our own IT team can adapt to new experiences as they come out and give us feedback that we can use for fine tuning to scale what works out to the entire world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>New features pivotal in making MSW home page for all<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When MSW debuted as the company\u2019s home page in 1996, it was the definitive place where employees went to find information and do what they needed to do. Since then, employees get additional information that is specific to them, whether it be news, how to sign up for benefits in their home country, or the menu at their local caf\u00e9\u2014all from numerous sources and accessible across various applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had a home page with really limited audience customization,\u201d Jaffe says. \u201cWe wanted to move to the point where we felt like we had a personalized home page built just for you. To do that, we needed to move from limited targeting to much finer-grained targeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This means that customized content is aggregated for the user on a more central location based on their activities with content and other people throughout the company. Therefore, communication managers from particular parts of the company can now program content on MSW that will be seen by only the employees in their divisions. For example, the company\u2019s sales team is now using MSW\u2019s audience targeting feature to share guidance with sellers on how to support their customers and partners as they deal with COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur new SharePoint home site allows that kind of customization,\u201d Crewdson says. \u201cAudience targeting has been democratized. Anyone can do it\u2014it\u2019s very easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does it work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5068\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5068\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/01\/8800-India-Manager.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5068 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/01\/8800-India-Manager-300x245.png\" alt=\"A screenshot shows content that Microsoft India managers saw on their localized version of the MSW homepage on the same day shown above for new hires working in the Bay Area. The screenshot shows a story on why managers need to learn to coach, a story asking managers to get their teams to start using the new version of Microsoft Edge, a story on how Microsoft Teams has been rolled out to in eight Indian languages, and a story shown globally on all versions of MSW on Microsoft\u2019s new holiday ad.\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/01\/8800-India-Manager-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/01\/8800-India-Manager-768x627.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2020\/01\/8800-India-Manager.png 922w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Managers who work at Microsoft India were presented with their own localized set of content on their version of the MSW home page on the day shown above for Bay Area employees. Only one story was shown on both versions of MSW\u2014the story on the company\u2019s holiday ad that the Microsoft Employees Communications Team wanted all employees to see.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The MSW content team can push out content that\u2019s relevant to everyone, but local content managers can change and adjust the content that shows up in their region or to employees in their particular division (what Xbox employees see will be different from that viewed by employees in the Office group). When it launches fully, local teams will be able to feed their local content into their version of MSW, eliminating the need for them to operate their own, separate portal.<\/p>\n<p>Some news will be required reading for everyone, like announcements from senior leadership or broader company meetings; items like those will automatically be programmed to be seen by all. Also, by default, information like caf\u00e9 menus and bus schedules will show only what\u2019s available in an individual employee\u2019s city or office\u2014if you\u2019re an employee in New York City, you won\u2019t see shuttle options for Redmond.<\/p>\n<p>Empowering the company to deliver relevant information to its employees is only half of it. The SharePoint news feature offers a personalized news feed in places like the SharePoint start page and the SharePoint mobile app. When a user follows a site, for example, news from that site is shown in their feed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this way SharePoint can act as a news aggregator, centralizing the news from across all the sites that are important to you,\u201d Crewdson says. \u201cWe believe, as the news features continue to be adopted, we\u2019re going to have more informed users. People are more productive when they\u2019re engaged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A communications manager in Microsoft Australia or the company\u2019s regional office in Los Angeles would sign in to MSW, take a look at the feed coming in from headquarters in Redmond and add any local, role-related, or organizational content that they want to distribute for the employees who they\u2019re trying to reach. On their end, it\u2019s as easy as adding a headline, image, and description and then adding a group tag for each news item.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SharePoint value out-of-the-box<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SharePoint offers much more than targeting content, Crewdson says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, it\u2019s dramatically cheaper and easier for us to build and manage on SharePoint now than in the past,\u201d he says. \u201cThe product is really good out of the box. We don\u2019t need to focus as much time and budget to design elements, mobile responsiveness, and accessibility. It hardly needs any customization, and that\u2019s really exciting from an IT and life-cycle management perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For example, the previous version of MSW had 13 custom elements built and managed by an internal development team. This required that the team build individual parts for sections of MSW like the home page layout and for sections of the site like the news and events tabs. The new version, by comparison, was built almost entirely using out-of-box functionality, requiring only three customizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow those customizations all come built in, they\u2019re high quality, fast to use, and are free,\u201d Crewdson says. \u201cThey definitely come with some sizzle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the Employee Communications Team doesn\u2019t need to budget for as much customization to build and operate MSW.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new SharePoint Framework is based on open standards and is very friendly,\u201d he says. \u201cYou can develop on any JavaScript framework that you want. You can choose the language you want to use. You can write in a way that makes sense for you. It\u2019s all about developing in SharePoint in a way that makes sense to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It used to be that you needed a specialized SharePoint developer just to make your site look nice. And too often, time and budget restrictions curbed efforts to then make the portal responsive and accessible on mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of teams that tried SharePoint 8 to 10 years ago found it was ugly by default,\u201d Crewdson says. \u201cIt required developer interaction to make it pretty, and when you had to hire that developer, it was kind of hard to find that person\u2014you had to go and find someone who was knowledgeable about doing it the SharePoint way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to allowing site owners to create beautiful pages, SharePoint now is much more accessible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEngaging all Microsoft employees is part of our core mission. The new version is accessible by default,\u201d Crewdson says. \u201cIn the old days, we had to build accessibility in. Now we get that out of the box. 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